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No. 267,696. I Patentfid- Nov. 2 6 2 UNITED STATES PATENT Orricaj ISAAC w. LINCOLN, on em. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

' FIRE-ESCAPE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,696, dated November 21, 1882.

Application filed June 26, 188?. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC W. LINCOLN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Firemens Elevators;

reel for holding it at any desired position,

Fig. 4, a detail view of one of the spring-holding devices for holding the wire cords or ropes when not in use; Fig. 5, asimilar view of the device, showing the wire ropes in position'when held thereby; and Fig. 6, a detail view of one of the pulleys for holding the wire cord, provided with an alarm.

The object of the present invention is to provide means by which firemen, either with or without hose, can be readily and quickly elevated to the roof or other portion of a burning building, thereby enabling them to locate a fire also, to flood the structure in the exact 10- cality wherein it is burning, irrespective of height of said building; also, to use the device for rescuing the inmates thereof, as required. These objects 1 attain by the means substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a building having connected to its roof or upper portion iron brackets B, of any suitable form and construction, to which are suspended pulleys 0. Over the pulleys 0 pass wire cords D, which,when not in use, are held against the building by means of spring.holding devices consisting of corrugated springplates E, fastened to spikes a, which are driven in the'wall of the building, as more clearly shown in Fig. 5. It will be noticed with, and when the wire cord is pulled in either direction it strikes one of the two pins 0, and by the continued turning'of the wheel or rollor the spring will fly from the pin and with sufficient force to strike an alarm against the belld.

By the employmentof the alarm, burglars or other unauthorized persons are prevented from tampering with the wire ropes without it being known. These wire ropes or cords D,

when not in use, are at all times designed to be held against the building, and are for the purpose of pulling the wire ropes F through pulleys 0, after which the ropes are unfastened from cords D and fastened to a suit-- able car, G. The other end of wire rope F is at all times fastened to a suitable reel, H, upon a carriage, I, and is wound upon or unwound from the reel, thereby raising or lowering car G, as desired, said car being guided in its course by guy-ropes K.

The car G is provided with grab-hooks, by which it may be fastened to any opening desired, and the reel may have gearing c fan'd pawl g for turning it and holding it stationary when desired. I

Any suitable reel with a coil of wire rope of sufficientlength may be employed and adapted for attachmentto any hook-and-ladder truck or hose-reel cart or carriage, or may be used on a separate truck built for the purpose.

Although the invention is more particularly intended to elevate the firemen, with or without the hose, to any point or height, for the purpose hereinbefore described, the car can be also used for or as a fire-escape to rescue the inmates from the burning building.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The brackets B, having suspended there- In testimony that I claim the above I have from pulleys O, carrying wire cords D, in hereunto subscribed my name in the presence combination with the spikes a, driven in the of two Witnesses.

building and provided with the corrugated ISAAC W. LINCOLN. spring-plates E, for retaining the wire cords Witnesses:

when not in use against the building, sub- JOHN A. DOLMAN,

stantiaily as and for the purpose set forth. F. M. TUFTs. 

